Nearly all large social media platforms have removed dislikes / downvotes. Reddit is the last one to have them, and it wouldn’t surprise me if they remove them also.

https://forward.com/news/462916/nazi-collaborator-monuments-in-ukraine/

To elaborate on why I’d like to add this, from the original issue:

This is to enable a user being able to still show downvotes for other people’s posts/comments, but hide downvotes to their own content.

Adding this exception for your user alone, is to promote a positive experience, and for users to not have their mental well-being negatively affected by downvotes to their own content.

To mitigate the mental health negatives of downvotes, many instances already have downvotes entirely removed (meaning not only are downvotes not shown, but its impossible to downvote anything).

Disabling downvotes globally (not just for your user), has a lot of negatives, such as:

• Highly negative / low score comments seem to still be upvoted, and so encourage twitter-style rage-bait engagement (instead of just downvoting and moving on).
• These combative threads then keep getting bumped to the top of the active sort, making hostile comments seem the norm.
• You don’t know which comments are actually unpopular or not, so like twitter, you have to “check the ratio”, of replies to upvotes, to see if something is actually unpopular.

By making ShowForOthers default, we mitigate the downsides above, while also promoting positive mental health.

Just to clarify:

• This is not removing the ability to downvote.
• This is only about adding a setting to hide downvotes to your own content.
• Users can always re-enable showing downvotes to their own content at any time in their settings.

A member of my family is one of these. After her last one died (which she also never walked), she got a puppy. It’s going on 6 months now, a puppy who hasn’t been on a single walk yet.

Animal abuse nation.

Not just lemmy, but every fediverse platform can and should be trying to do better than centralized social media when it comes to mentally harmful / addictive patterns in our apps. I’ve tried to do some things to minimize addiction, but there’s a lot more we could be doing.

If you were to rank the things about lemmy that are most addictive, what would they be? Then we can think of ways to minimize or subvert them, where feasible.

IMO infinite scrolling, seeing the same things over again, and wanting to check like your own content likes / dislikes, are the worst offenders.

Electoral reform not only doesn’t address root causes, it doesn’t even treat the symptoms. It hasn’t prevented australia or japan from having far right governments, hasn’t returned land to indigenous peoples, hasn’t done anything against inequality, hasn’t empowered poorer peoples. All it does is make the political bribery slightly more expensive.

At a deeper level, representative elections always result in an oligarchy. The wealthy / economically dominant classes are the only ones who have enough money / prestige to finance their campaigns and win the popularity contest. It makes any political system based on elections nothing more than political theatre.

This is basic stuff even the ancient greeks knew, and communists learned through trial and error, yet liberals in the 21st century can’t wrap their heads around it.

Nope.

US murders civilians like it always has done.

Random redditor: This is just like russia!!

Nice, this needs to be made into a meme asap.

This is the PRC’s retaliation for Meng Wanzhou’s kidnapping. Just trolling canada now.

Last time I was in Wisconsin (maybe 10 years ago), there were 30 racks for like $8-12 dollars.

Alternative voting systems have in practice been proven useless, whether in South Korea, Japan, Australia, and many other capitalist dictatorship countries that use it. It might make bribery a bit more expensive, since there are more candidates to buy off, and more political advertising necessary, but it hasn’t fixed anything.

The root problem is capital standing above political power. And that can’t be undone using it’s own platform.

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Read the issue above for why. Vote manipulation is a real problem, but making all votes public is not the solution anyone wants. Limiting vote viewing to admins and mods is decided on as the best of both worlds.

Also that tool can only be used by specifically malicious instances whose goal it is to snoop and expose all votes. Those instances can and should be blocked.

We’ve opened up issues on other services many months ago about retaining user vote privacy, because lemmy users overwhelmingly don’t want their votes snooped on.

I want to remind everyone that since users overwhelmingly don’t want their votes snooped on (for good reason), we will never add anything like this inside lemmy, lemmy-ui, or jerboa.

While there’s nothing we can do to snoopers making tools like this, it requires a lemmy server admin login.

If you know of servers which are giving admin access to this tool, let us know, so we can add it to our blocklist.

They’ve somehow managed to convince a stunningly large number of gullible USians, that you need to eat shit to survive, or that its harm reduction or something…

Great scene.